Published by Abrams, Earth From Space features more than 150 magnificent satellite photographs provided by European aerospace technology company Astrium as well as NASA. These photographs are much more than beautiful pic...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Unst... ...ederate prison camps. Thousands amassed along the Mississippi River seeking passage on one of the many steamships mak... ...s making their way upriver to the north. One such riverboat was the Sultana, a state-of-the-art side-wheeler... ...owner, J.C. Ma...

What do you do when you are the U.S. Army Corp... ...o learn how to control flooding? You recreate the Mississippi River to simulate floods. See the gallery of photos at... ...r nearly two decades of devastating floods in the Mississippi River Basin, Congress passed the Flood Control Act, whi... ...y idea: Wh...

This is a portion of a 1858 map of property li... ...portion of a 1858 map of property lines along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The map remi... ...t to the fact that every landowner wants a bit of riverfront